madamoringo: Let ibos integrate themselves. It is not the job of any part of Nigeria to babysit or spoon feed the ibos. Ibos can go to APC or PDP, what is integration there? Is any other part of Nigeria asking to be integrated, when it is their job to belong where they want? When will Ibos stop this feeding bottle liability complex?

madamoringo: Let ibos integrate themselves. It is not the job of any part of Nigeria to babysit or spoon feed the ibos. Ibos can go to APC or PDP, what is integration there? Is any other part of Nigeria asking to be integrated, when it is their job to belong where they want? When will Ibos stop this feeding bottle liability complex?

madamoringo: Let ibos integrate themselves. It is not the job of any part of Nigeria to babysit or spoon feed the ibos. Ibos can go to APC or PDP, what is integration there? Is any other part of Nigeria asking to be integrated, when it is their job to belong where they want? When will Ibos stop this feeding bottle liability complex?

madamoringo: Let ibos integrate themselves. It is not the job of any part of Nigeria to babysit or spoon feed the ibos. Ibos can go to APC or PDP, what is integration there? Is any other part of Nigeria asking to be integrated, when it is their job to belong where they want? When will Ibos stop this feeding bottle liability complex?

hakanai:

^^^^^ Couldn't have being said better. That said they rejected the APC in there quest to suck up to GEJ and not the other way. They labelled it an anti-Igbo party and sidelined it. While the likes of Rochas remained and continue to advocate for Igbo presidency they simply labelled it from day one as anti-Igbo.They simply want APC to hand them the party because of there noise. Doesn't work that way.instead of castigating the party and making it look an enemy,you can be part of it and drive the change you desire. Its a party not some slaughter House. That said, the igbos continue to make the mistake of making the far north an enemy and believing is only befriending the minorities or xtians or splitting northerners along fault lines they can keep the north away from power and further allow there selfish goals progress.I tell you that everyday you make an enemy by your foolishness and gross mistakes.You could have a quest to make friends from all sides as it is about numbers and small things can be a key change for you someday.
The Yorubas have set the way. They do as they want but ensure they manage good diplomacy.The Igbos are trying to drag them into out right confrontations with the north. Which they have seen as not necessary.Instead of the Igbos recognizing that Yorubas are independent minded, they resolve to unleash all sort of venom and propaganda to make them the villains too. Igbos with there spread can be key in everything if only they can harness the contacts they have in there dealings and be more open minded and stop the pre/pro - Biafra antics.

Sibrah: They will soon show up and tell you about how the construction of the second Niger bridge is progressing, but you and i know it is a gimick to secure a second term support of Gej. And i can assure that there is no changing of their stance anytime soon.

Re: Why PDP May Win Again By Osita Okechukwu

The Chop-Sand-Syndrome proponents in the South East, will tell you that APC being championed by Yorubas and Hausas means that there is nothing in the kitty for Ndigbo; whether President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, is performing or not.
BY OSITA OKECHUKWU AUG 03, 2014

Permit me to reply to an article titled - Why Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may Win again - by my brother Edozie Okeiyi, Director of Media and Strategy, Great Nigeria Movement, in the globally acclaimed Sahareporters, one of the moral forces of Nigeria's fledgling democracy.

One would like to start by saying that Edozie falls into the category of Chop-Sand-Syndrome, found mostly among my Igbo brothers, whose trajectory is without scant regard that Ndigbo like Dr Ogbonia Onu, are prominent in their own right in All Progressives Congress (APC), deliberately define the APC as Yoruba and Hausa party. This is wrong.

The Chop-Sand-Syndrome proponents in the South East, will tell you that APC being championed by Yorubas and Hausas means that there is nothing in the kitty for Ndigbo; whether President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, is performing or not.

They will wittingly or unwittingly ignore the fact the shortest route to president of Igbo extraction is APC; for if President Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR, wins 2015 presidential election, the earliest an Igbo can be president is 2027. But if APC wins the earliest for the Igbos is 2023, this is because of the moral weight of zoning convention that is South-North primed.

Their basic canvass is that it is better for Jonathan to continue, whether he is clueless, runs unclean government or cannot get things done. When you tell them that Nigeria has never been as divided as today; and hence needs urgently to be fixed, whether a Christian, Muslim, Igbo, Hausa or Yoruba, since our dear president cannot fix electricity, modern rail lines, East-West road or the monster of insurgency.

Their answer is anchored on ancient prejudice arising from the Biafran civil war. They will tell you that Ndigbo have been, 'Chopping Sand' post civil war and if Jonathan's victory can make their brother contemporaries in the Nigerian project to 'Chop Sand' that will not be a bad idea.

If you make the mistake of reminding them that the basic tenet of Christianity and by extension Islam and other faiths is forgiveness and that our youths who make up more than 60% of our population were post civil war citizens and must be spared this stereo-type.

They will remind you of federal character quota system that denied them the competitive edge they could have enjoyed in a saner clime.

When you re-echo that there is no war fought in history without unintended consequences; which requires statesmanship and craftsmanship to resolve, they quip, you are an idealist.

When you refer them to the current National Conference to go and find out why the Conference inspite of the fact that it was packaged for predetermined hidden agenda failed to give the conveners the region they some much cherished, they will blame the North. They will not want to know that Ebonyi, Enugu, Lagos and others states voted against region.

Otherwise, how can Edozie deny the fact that Nigeria has reached the zenith of liberal democracy, where two political parties dominate in a multi-party system? Where neither PDP nor APC can score more than 53% of total votes cast in the 2015 presidential election, nor win 2/3 of the National and State Assemblies or 2/3 of the governors of the 36 states.

We are without being immodest, in a phase, where most importantly bleeding national issues can no more be treated as PDP family issues; ask Mr President, he will tell you that if you want to pass a bill today, pick $1 billion loan you must account, explain and negotiate.

The truism is that PDP and APC are in every ward, local government area and state of the federation today, unlike in the past where PDP was the only national platform. This is the worry of the leadership of the PDP, especially for a political party that boasted to rule uninterrupted for 60 years whether they perform or not. This belies the spin that APC is not strong, despite the fact that the party is not in charge of our security agencies and Oil Signature.

We of the APC would have been glad if the leadership of PDP are inclined to Edozie's less than accurate analysis that APC is not strong and confined to only some limited sections of the country. The fireworks going on in Rivers and Katsina states for example nor the gale of impeachment would not be there.

That APC is a Muslim party, falls flat in the face, if Edozie is not suffering from Chop-Sand-Syndrome. Granted that the Interim National Executive of the APC by coincident was led by elder statesman, Bisi Akande, a Muslim as chairman, in 18 Muslim and 17 Christian ratio; coincident in the sense that shortly before the registration of APC on 31st July 2013, the ACN, ANPP, CPC, and factions of APGA and DPP, the legacy parties were allotted offices and each in the mood of the moment submitted names. How come that the election of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, a Christian, in the prism of Edozie and his Chop-Sand-Syndrome cohorts did not convert the APC to a Christian party?

For the avoidance of doubt, one will do everything to shy away from discussing persons, however permit me to briefly submit that neither Chiefs Tom Ikimi nor Femi Fani Kayode's diatribe were premised on public nor national interest . Fani Kayode unlike Ikimi was an interloper in the APC and therefore one will not discuss him, as our great party will never file a Muslim-Muslim or Christian-Christian ticket in a divided Nigeria.

For Ikimi he was the lead co-chairman of the Joint Merger Committee of the legacy parties and worked tirelessly to construct the merger. He gave all, but his discontent in my estimation arose in the last few days of the merger committee meeting. As we were wounding up with our recommendations to the legacy parties, senator Ahmed Yerima raised a motion on the floor to the effect that Chief Tom Ikimi be nominated as the chairman Interim National Executive Committee, Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau as secretary, Alhaji Garba Gadi as deputy chairman, all representing the major legacy parties, ACN, ANPP and CPC respectively.The motion was adopted and my humble self moved a counter motion, basing my motion on the doctrine of trite law which unambiguously defines the relationship between the agent and the principal.

To cut the story short, Ikimi's ambition to head the Interim National Executive failed, as each party was allowed to nominate their own slot. Methinks this is his grouse with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, not for any public interest.

Gbawe: The Igbos have never hidden their unreasonable and clannish prejudice against the APC. They did not give the Party a chance from the beginning and their opposition to the APC is not even based on solid premises related to good governance. They have turned GEJ into the modern day Ojukwu to be supported blindly and worshipped without question. Their mindset begins and end with finding ridiculous excuses to like and back everything affiliated with GEJ (the misruling PDP for example) while hating, outrightly rejecting and vilifying anything/anyone(the APC, North,SW,Tinubu,Buhari et al) they regard to be against the ambition of GEJ.

The tragedy of the whole thing, for a people who claim to be intelligent, is that GEJ, for anyone fairly exposed, does not resembles even a mediocre leader let alone a moderately effective one. It is obvious why the Igbos clannishly support a man who is clearly a failure incapable of doing even the smallest things right. Sensible people, even amongst Igbo people themselves, will not court such prejudice same as no black man has any business begging a Ku Klux Klan supremacist to be his friend by force.

It is a total waste of time, while GEJ is still nursing a Presidential ambition, to ask the Igbos to support a Party that wants to throw sand in "Ebele Azikiwe's" garri. Many Igbos appear to be driven by a vengeful outlook linked to the past they seem to have no intention of moving on from. The APC should focus on its strength and desist from wasting time on a lost cause. As I see it, majority of Igbos are prepared to die with GEJ because he suits what their soul historically craves which has nothing to do with good governance. Whether GEJ runs Nigeria into the ground with misrule is not an issue for many Igbos now totally consumed with the notion that they have a 'champion' and arrowhead for the vendetta they are seeking against others.

hakanai:

^^^^^ Couldn't have being said better. That said they rejected the APC in there quest to suck up to GEJ and not the other way. They labelled it an anti-Igbo party and sidelined it. While the likes of Rochas remained and continue to advocate for Igbo presidency they simply labelled it from day one as anti-Igbo.They simply want APC to hand them the party because of there noise. Doesn't work that way.instead of castigating the party and making it look an enemy,you can be part of it and drive the change you desire. Its a party not some slaughter House. That said, the igbos continue to make the mistake of making the far north an enemy and believing is only befriending the minorities or xtians or splitting northerners along fault lines they can keep the north away from power and further allow there selfish goals progress.I tell you that everyday you make an enemy by your foolishness and gross mistakes.You could have a quest to make friends from all sides as it is about numbers and small things can be a key change for you someday.
The Yorubas have set the way. They do as they want but ensure they manage good diplomacy.The Igbos are trying to drag them into out right confrontations with the north. Which they have seen as not necessary.Instead of the Igbos recognizing that Yorubas are independent minded, they resolve to unleash all sort of venom and propaganda to make them the villains too. Igbos with there spread can be key in everything if only they can harness the contacts they have in there dealings and be more open minded and stop the pre/pro - Biafra antics.

iiichidodo: Igbos cannot be party to gang up, that is not equitably distributed,for power.Simply put,we cannot be led by the nose to join a political rat race instigated by those who continue to bear ill-will,religiously and idealogically against the SE/SS thus are willing to exploit these people for their clannish interests,We cannot continue or be part of the run of the subjugutation of the Northerners via percieved rhetorics over the Southerners as can be aptly recognized in the master to slave relationship btw the Hausa fulanis and the yorlobars.....It is best we stand together above all things, become a power bloc that will interest candidates who are ready to incorporate our own interests into an electoral manifesto,agenda or ideaology thus indirectly we take charge our destiny........APC hasn't shown interest to the igbos but we cannot be bothered when we have Goodluck Jonathan at the helm from now till 2019 with all the perks and all.

iiichidodo: Igbos cannot be party to gang up, that is not equitably distributed,for power.Simply put,we cannot be led by the nose to join a political rat race instigated by those who continue to bear ill-will,religiously and idealogically against the SE/SS thus are willing to exploit these people for their clannish interests,We cannot continue or be part of the run of the subjugutation of the Northerners via percieved rhetorics over the Southerners as can be aptly recognized in the master to slave relationship btw the Hausa fulanis and the yorlobars.....It is best we stand together above all things, become a power bloc that will interest candidates who are ready to incorporate our own interests into an electoral manifesto,agenda or ideaology thus indirectly we take charge our destiny........APC hasn't shown interest to the igbos but we cannot be bothered when we have Goodluck Jonathan at the helm from now till 2019 with all the perks and all.

TribalEAST: FYI, PDP is actually the party dividing the country along religious and ethnic lines. This same PDP is highly populated by thesame hausa you guys detest. I believe the ibos are a use and dump tribe, politically. Thesame GEJ they are putting all their eggs in his basket is thesame man that'll abandon them as soon he gets re-elected, even handing over to an hausa-fulani man, while the ibos go back to square one.

iiichidodo: The conduct of the igbos have been relatively impeccable over the past few administrations thus they have the respect and trust of your slave masters the hausa fulani.Unlike others of the Southwest the average igbo isnt particular about politics but economics,which is a fine aspect that holds the very fabric of our nation thus the igbos are relatively well off and so aren't particularly hurt as to whoever takes power.Like the hausas the yorbars derive relevance from politics but this scramble has seen them relegated to the background by their taskmasters thus they are easily lead and misled into exploitation calling it 'sophistication'......

aresa:


You hate the northers so much, but the same PDP you and your people belong to is all Northerners, there are at least 11 northern PDP states and that's twice your entire region. Without them, the PDP is nothing, the GEJ you are running around with is nothing.

You local and National leaders can not do without the Northerners and even your people in general can not do without the Northerners and the SWners that you hate so much because these are the places your people head to for survival.

You can spew all the hate and bigoted rhetoric you desire, but we all know it's BS because all that rubbish doesn't represent your daily realities , predicaments and fragile existence. This is why it's a good thing and you should be very thankful that the folks you hate so much doesn't have anything similar against you.

This is why your rhetoric moves nothing because underneath, self destructive, it's hollow, it's ignorant and misguided..

iiichidodo: The conduct of the igbos have been relatively impeccable over the past few administrations thus they have the respect and trust of your slave masters the hausa fulani.Unlike others of the Southwest the average igbo isnt particular about politics but economics,which is a fine aspect that holds the very fabric of our nation thus the igbos are relatively well off and so aren't particularly hurt as to whoever takes power.

[b]Like the hausas the yorbars derive relevance from politics but this scramble has seen them relegated to the background by their taskmasters thus they are easily lead and misled into exploitation calling it 'sophistication'

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TribalEAST: ^^^ what a childish political analysis, driven by emotions. Pls, go to the romance section.

hakanai:

^^^^^ Couldn't have being said better. That said they rejected the APC in there quest to suck up to GEJ and not the other way. They labelled it an anti-Igbo party and sidelined it. While the likes of Rochas remained and continue to advocate for Igbo presidency they simply labelled it from day one as anti-Igbo.They simply want APC to hand them the party because of there noise. Doesn't work that way.instead of castigating the party and making it look an enemy,you can be part of it and drive the change you desire. Its a party not some slaughter House. That said, the igbos continue to make the mistake of making the far north an enemy and believing is only befriending the minorities or xtians or splitting northerners along fault lines they can keep the north away from power and further allow there selfish goals progress.I tell you that everyday you make an enemy by your foolishness and gross mistakes.You could have a quest to make friends from all sides as it is about numbers and small things can be a key change for you someday.
The Yorubas have set the way. They do as they want but ensure they manage good diplomacy.The Igbos are trying to drag them into out right confrontations with the north. Which they have seen as not necessary.Instead of the Igbos recognizing that Yorubas are independent minded, they resolve to unleash all sort of venom and propaganda to make them the villains too. Igbos with there spread can be key in everything if only they can harness the contacts they have in there dealings and be more open minded and stop the pre/pro - Biafra antics.

TribalEAST: ^^^ what a childish political analysis, driven by emotions. Pls, go to the romance section.

barcanista:
iiichidodo Wrote

...Simply put,we cannot be led by the nose to join a political rat race instigated by those who continue to bear ill-will,religiously and idealogically against the SE/SS thus are willing to exploit these people for their clannish interests,We cannot continue or be part of the run of the subjugutation of the Northerners via percieved rhetorics over the Southerners as can be aptly recognized in the master to slave relationship btw the Hausa fulanis and the yorlobars


Mr Man, It's like you are yet to get the message? It is all region for itself. You Igbos can keep hating APC for all "I don't care" but leave SS out of your hate. It is on record that SS is not a political hateful region. Today APC is a Major force in SStthern states of Rivers, Edo and Delta States. Even The President's Home state Bayelsa have APC structure on ground led by Timpere Sylva. So you should restrict your hate to your region.

Gbawe:

Bro, just got back from holiday yesterday. Will access and reply the PM.

larride:

That line in bolded is wrong on all front. Firstly its Yoruba and not Yorbars. Secondly, The Yoruba does not scramble for any political relevance, we know what and where we belong and we don't need any chest beating to pinpoint that. What we call political sophistication is not being taken for granted by the people we have elected to serve us, that is why you will see an average Yoruba man talking politics as if his life depended on it because frankly speaking, his life depends on it indirectly because an decisions taken by those elected will affect us all. Why don't you ask yourself why the issue of religion doesn't normally comes up when we want to chose our leaders, its because we know thati irrespective of the religion, an evil man is an evil man and so we don't play religion politics and anybody who tries who play religion politics with the Yoruba is just wasting his time.

The Igbos really need to gather themselves together and build the bridge that is widen between the rest of nation and not stay isolated and claim that they are being ignored. Nothing will be given to them on a plattar, they need to work for it. Its our son, its our time noise won't do the trick rather political strategy will do, if they expect that GEJ will hand over to them when he finishes his second term if elected means they are being dissiluisoned about themselves. The time to stay building that bridge to reach out to all other tribe is NOW.

The civil war is gone and i'm sorry for all the lives lost, the time to rebuild is NOW!!!

iiichidodo: igbos are reaching out everywhere as evidenced of their migratory signatures,ironically Nigeria is very uncormfortable with these folks politically so you hear people mostly yorubas say an igbo will never become president (but it took a dead yorobar to pave the way for Obj),That perception has forced the igbos to come together in vote for those who would rule Nigeria like an igbo would or at least something close to that.Good that we have swayin numbers and in conjunction with those in the SS we can turn a tightly contested electoral process on its head thus like the military strategist mao tse tsung we are better served standing aloof to watch proceedings closely before throwin our lots and not become sheeps to the slaughter led by Tinubu. By the way since most yorubars refer to igbos as 'ibos' we have taken the liberty to corrupt yoruba into 'yorobars" 'yeribas' and so on and so forth

barcanista: [s]
iiichidodo Wrote

...Simply put,we cannot be led by the nose to join a political rat race instigated by those who continue to bear ill-will,religiously and idealogically against the SE/SS thus are willing to exploit these people for their clannish interests,We cannot continue or be part of the run of the subjugutation of the Northerners via percieved rhetorics over the Southerners as can be aptly recognized in the master to slave relationship btw the Hausa fulanis and the yorlobars


Mr Man, It's like you are yet to get the message? It is all region for itself. You Igbos can keep hating APC for all "I don't care" but leave SS out of your hate. It is on record that SS is not a political hateful region. Today APC is a Major force in SStthern states of Rivers, Edo and Delta States. Even The President's Home state Bayelsa have APC structure on ground led by Timpere Sylva. So you should restrict your hate to your region.[/s]

barcanista:
iiichidodo Wrote

...Simply put,we cannot be led by the nose to join a political rat race instigated by those who continue to bear ill-will,religiously and idealogically against the SE/SS thus are willing to exploit these people for their clannish interests,We cannot continue or be part of the run of the subjugutation of the Northerners via percieved rhetorics over the Southerners as can be aptly recognized in the master to slave relationship btw the Hausa fulanis and the yorlobars


Mr Man, It's like you are yet to get the message? It is all region for itself. You Igbos can keep hating APC for all "I don't care" but leave SS out of your hate. It is on record that SS is not a political hateful region. Today APC is a Major force in SStthern states of Rivers, Edo and Delta States. Even The President's Home state Bayelsa have APC structure on ground led by Timpere Sylva. So you should restrict your hate to your region.